Portland lost 2-0 to Seattle Sunday night, but the scoreline could've been worse for the Timbers.

Portland goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts kept the Timbers in the game with a number of spectacular stops on his way to setting a franchise single-game record with eight saves.

"Ricketts was probably the Man of the Match because he had some big saves," Seattle coach Sigi Schmid said.

Ricketts made diving save on a Gonzalo Pineda header in the 47th minute, reacted quickly on Marco Pappa's blast from about nine yards out 54th minute and had another quick save on a point-blank shot from Lamar Neagle in the 80th minute.

Perhaps no sequence displayed Rickett's performance more than one in the 71st minute.

Off a corner, Ricketts used his leg to stop a short shot by Clint Dempsey inside the six-yard box, and then, while on his back, used his hand to stone a shot Obafemi Martins.